Excerpt from Morning Faces

A Professor in one of our American colleges used to say to his students, "Young men, you are making your faces."

It was true of all his students. Some were busy making records on the athletic field, others working up records in the class room, a few very busy creating reputations with the girls, some idling their time away. But all of them were busy making their faces.

Most of the people in America are trying to earn their living. When I see the crowds on the ferries and on the suburban trains, many of them have a strained, worn look. In the crowds you can see faces that haunt you for days. John Masefield, the English sailor poet, wrote of them:

"Faces, - passionate faces, - of men I may not know,
They haunt me, burn me to the heart, as I turn aside to go!
The king's face, and the cur's face, and the face of the stuffed swine.
They are passing, they are passing, their eyes look into mine."

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